10 Brilliant Historical Movies With Unforgivable Inaccuracies

2. All Of It - Braveheart (1995)

As a piece of engaging cinema you don't get much better than Braveheart. You've got romance, tragedy, action and even humour. The soundtrack is evocative, the protagonists is a burly hunk, and the dialogue is stirring. Add in all the thrilling battle sequences and you've got one hell of a movie.

However, this film might be the most gross depiction of history ever put to screen - and that's including Quintain Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds.

The liberties taken with this film are too many to count, so we'll just explore the most glaring. Firstly, the famed Battle of Stirling Bridge was depicted without a bridge. Secondly, Princess Isabella, who Wallace supposedly sired a child with, was nine at the time of his death. Thirdly, the name 'Braveheart' was actually the nickname the Scots gave to Robert the Bruce. None of these factors come close to the ridiculousness of dressing everyone in kilts and tartan, however.

Kilts didn't come into fashion for another 200 years after the death of Wallace. That's a worse inaccuracy than having the characters in a World War 1 drama wearing Yeezys.